# $property - what are they? **URL:** \ **Category:** flash\ **Created:** [August 22, 2008, 8:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/property-what-are-they/269115 "2008-08-22T20:04:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jwopitz](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/jwopitz/32/1556_2.png) [@jwopitz](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jwopitz)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 8:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/property-what-are-they/269115/1 "2008-08-22T20:04:27Z")
Doing some work in the debugger I have often noticed that in addition to all of the public, protected and private references there are properties prefixed with $. My guess is these are accessors to low-level properties somewhere up in the inheritance chain. But I hate guessing. Anyone know? Are there any advantages to utilizing these properties? Any documentation on them? I can’t find jack on these. ---
**Author:** ![TheCanadian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@TheCanadian](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/TheCanadian)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2008, 12:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/property-what-are-they/269115/2 "2008-08-24T00:22:06Z")
[http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Coding+Conventions](http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Coding+Conventions) > [@Adobe](#): > > If a class overrides a getter/setter and wants to continue to expose the base getter/setter, it should do so by implementing a property whose name is the base name with a $ prepended. This getter/setter should be marked final and should do nothing more than call the supergetter/setter. ---
**Author:** ![wvxvw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a9a28c/32.png) [@wvxvw](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/wvxvw)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2008, 8:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/property-what-are-they/269115/3 "2008-08-24T08:55:19Z")
wow… good to know =)